In particular it alleged that agents were being targeted in a purge by being threatened with criminal charges relating to their official conduct, reflecting a pattern which suggested to some that ASIS or a senior ASIS officer had been ' turned ' by a foreign intelligence service.

In the top leadership, it led to a mass purge of senior officials who were accused of taking a " capitalist road ", most notably Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping.

After achieving senior positions in Guangdong, Zhao directed a harsh purge of cadres accused of corruption or having ties to the Kuomintang.

Like nearly all senior Army officers, Rundstedt welcomed the July 1934 purge of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung ( SA ) leadership, although he was angered that two generals, Schleicher and Ferdinand von Bredow, were killed: he was among the senior officers who later persuaded Hitler to have these two officers posthumously ( but secretly ) rehabilitated.

On 6 December 1937, as part of a purge by Hore-Belisha of senior officers, Gort was appointed to the Army Council, made a general and replaced Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell as Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

The Eleven Reliable clique was an external tool of a more closed group of three influential senior military officers called the " Three Crows " ( Tetsuzan Nagata, Toshiro Obata and Yasuji Okamura ) who wanted to modernize the Japanese military and to purge it of its anachronistic samurai tradition and the dominant allied clans of Chōshū and Satsuma that favored that tradition.

In the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution, Kang remained close to the pinnacle of power and, as the “ evil genius ” within the Central Case Examination Group ( the “ CCEG ”) established by the Politburo on May 24, 1966, was instrumental in Mao ’ s efforts to purge many senior Party officials, including his most senior rival within the Party, Liu Shaoqi.

They begin a purge of senior military officers and political figures to cement their rule.

Empress Dowager Wu used this opportunity to carry out a major purge of senior imperial Li clan members, including Emperor Ruizong's granduncles Li Yuanjia ( 李元嘉 ) the Prince of Han and Li Lingkui ( 李靈夔 ) the Prince of Lu.

The widespread purge that has taken place the past twelve months or so among Communist leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who will dominate the Congress, and the Central Committee it will elect, will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on the job.

In early October, Mao began a campaign to purge officials disloyal to him.

The White Terror saw the purge of all important Napoleonic officials from government, and the execution of others.

It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliated persons, characterized by widespread police surveillance, widespread suspicion of " saboteurs ", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions.

Using this as an opportunity to purge his government, Hongwu also ordered the execution countless other officials, as well as their family, for associating with Hu.

Many other officials who were not willing to follow Wang Mang were also victimized in this purge.

A purge of prison officials in Fremantle followed.

The empress dowager's father Dou Wu and Chen became the most important officials in the imperial government, and they sought to purge the government of eunuch influences.

Szakasits ' imprisonment would be the start of a long purge against former social democrats, trade union officials, and high-standing communist party members.

Although Ii ’ s Ansei purge was very effective in silencing the officials and his high ranking opponents, it did not have the same effect on lower ranking samurai.

Yezhov also conducted a thorough purge of the security organs, both NKVD and GRU, removing and executing many officials who had been appointed by his predecessors Yagoda and Menzhinsky, but even his own appointees as well.

He managed to purge officials that had dominated the administration with the help of Toghtogha.

The Chinese officials repeatedly urged Yesün Temür to extend the purge to all former allies of Temuder and Tegshi and their families ; but Yesün Temür Khan refused.

As in other Eastern Bloc countries, there was a Soviet-style political purge of Communist officials, accused of " nationalist " or other " deviationist " tendencies in Poland.

First proposed by John Pym, the effective leader of opposition to the King in Parliament and taken up by George Digby, John Hampden and others, the Grand Remonstrance summarised all of Parliament's opposition to Charles ' foreign, financial, legal and religious policies, setting forth 204 separate points of objection and calling for the expulsion of all bishops from Parliament, a purge of officials, with Parliament having a right of veto over Crown appointments and an end to sale of land confiscated from Irish rebels.

* January 21 – Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin immediately begins to purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership.

Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside decided to conduct a mass purge of the Army of the Potomac's leadership, eliminating a number of generals who he felt were responsible for the disaster at Fredericksburg.

Lê and Thọ, former rivals, formed a coalition within the Party leadership ; together they initiated a purge against the pro-Chinese faction, the first two victims being Hoàng Văn Hoan and Chu Văn Tấn.

The purge was motivated by the desire on the part of the leadership to remove dissenters from the Party and what is often considered to have been a desire to consolidate the authority of Joseph Stalin.

Most public attention was focused on the purge of the leadership of the Communist Party, as well as of government bureaucrats and leaders of the armed forces, most of whom were Party members.

These eventually proved a considerable political embarrassment to the Workers ' Party, and in 1992 the leadership proposed amendments to the party constitution which would, inter alia, effectively allow it to purge members suspected of involvement in the Official IRA.

After the 1948 election, the CIO took the fight one step further in 1950, expelling the ILWU, the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union, the Farm Equipment Union, the Food and Tobacco Workers, and the Fur and Leather Workers, while creating a new union, the International Union of Electrical Workers, to replace the UE, which left the CIO rather than purge its leadership.

In order to get a free university education he emigrated to Communist GDR at the age of 18, and after facing initial doubts due to his heritage was allowed to join the Socialist Unity Party in 1963, but did not rise to leadership positions until shortly after the fall of communism and the resulting purge of hardliners from the party.

A purge followed in the SDF at its 1903 Annual Conference, with the dissident radicals denounced as " Impossibilists " by the SDF leadership.

The purge of the SA leadership and other enemies of the state began on 30 June in an action which became known as the Night of the Long Knives.

The trial was the result of a split within the Communist leadership on the degree to which the state should emulate the Soviet Union, and was part of a Joseph Stalin-inspired purge of " disloyal " elements in the national Communist parties in Central Europe, as well as a purge of Jews from the leadership of Communist parties.

Despite his central role in implementing the leftist policies, Genden deftly survived the purge by securing Joseph Stalin's favor during an internal MPRP leadership struggle.

In 1950 he fell victim to a Stalinist purge of the party leadership, and was sentenced for life, spending the years from 1954 to 1960 in the Leopoldov Prison.

Before the turnabout in Ukraine in 1933, a purge of Veli Ibrahimov and his leadership in the Crimean ASSR in 1929 for " national deviation " led to Russianization of government, education, and the media and to the creation of a special alphabet for Crimean Tatar to replace the Latin alphabet.

) Lysenko's ideas proved appealing to the Soviet leadership, in part because of their value as propaganda, and he was ultimately made director of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences ; subsequently, Lysenko directed a purge of scientists who professed " harmful ideas ," resulting in the expulsion, imprisonment, or death of hundreds of Soviet scientists.

A thorough purge of the church leadership and membership took place, with those former insiders and leaders who refused to relinquish their pride being " rejected, and their names blotted out " ( Alma 6: 3 ).

In the beginning the Nazi Party's " Brown Shirt " bully-boys and street brawlers which grew by 1934 into a paramilitary force of nearly a half-million men ; after the purge of its leadership by the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) and Gestapo during the Night of the Long Knives rapidly decreased in numbers and influence.

They proceeded to purge the leadership of the remaining conservatives and non-TCP leftists, particularly Lien Wenqing.